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Hacker Newsletter #752

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? //Satchel Paige

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Issue #752 // 2025-06-27 // View in your browser

Quick programming note: no issue next week for July 4th. Enjoy! – kale

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#Favorites


Gemini CLI
//blog.google comments→

Writing toy software is a joy
//blog.jsbarretto.com comments→

uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
//github.com comments→

Fun with uv and PEP 723
//cottongeeks.com comments→

Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
//thedeletedscenes.substack.com comments→

How I use my terminal
//jyn.dev comments→

A new PNG spec
//programmax.net comments→

OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
//george.mand.is comments→

Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
//starship.rs comments→

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
//lucalp.dev comments→

Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
//snowemu.com comments→

Oasis – An open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium
//github.com comments→

#Ask HN


How to get rid of Gemini?

Is anyone else just done with the industry?

#Show HN


PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods //plasticlist.org comments→

I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir //github.com comments→

Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe //github.com comments→

The Offline Club //theoffline-club.com comments→

Weather Watching //walzr.com comments→

Reducto Studio – Build accurate document pipelines, fast //news.ycombinator.com

RSS Server Side Reader //matklad.github.io comments→

#Code


Microsoft Edit //github.com comments→

-2000 Lines of code //folklore.org comments→

Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App //nickjanetakis.com comments→

Claude Code for VSCode //marketplace.visualstudio.com comments→

How to Think About Time in Programming //shanrauf.com comments→

Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers //github.com comments→

Everything I know about good system design //seangoedecke.com comments→

#Data


Introducing Gemma 3n //developers.googleblog.com comments→

I built an AI dataset generator //github.com comments→

DuckPlot: The missing link between DuckDB and visualization //summer.io comments→

Best SQL Games to Master Database Skills in 2025 //sqlnoir.com comments→

#Design


Project Indigo – a computational photography camera app //research.adobe.com comments→

Designing for the Eye //nubero.ch comments→

Annotation Mono: A lovingly crafted handwriting-style monospace font //qwerasd205.github.io comments→

#Books


A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books //techcrunch.com comments→

New Zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal //jvns.ca comments→

#Working


Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes //news.ycombinator.com

Skip the exit interview when you leave your job //blog.petdance.com comments→

Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It) //terriblesoftware.org comments→

#Learn


AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome //deepmind.google comments→

Basic Facts about GPUs //damek.github.io comments→

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor //iaea.org comments→

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet //space.com comments→

#Watching


John Carmack (Keen Technologies): Research Directions //youtube.com comments→

We Stripped Ford's Worst Modern Engine to See Why It Keeps Exploding //youtube.com comments→

Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits //theguardian.com comments→

Robots that learn //openai.com comments→

Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship //angadh.com comments→

Sourcehut Moving to Europe //news.ycombinator.com

CareerBuilder and Monster job boards, file for bankruptcy //reuters.com comments→

#Fun


Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images //rubinobservatory.org comments→

Thnickels //thick-coins.net comments→

Marble Blast //marbleblast.vaniverse.io comments→

Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader //mattgreer.dev comments→

Interactive visualization of billions of galaxies from Vera C. Rubin Observatory //skyviewer.app comments→

Summle – A little maths Game //summle.net comments→

I built a game to simulate the life of a Chief Data Officer //whoisthebestcdo.com comments→

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